I can be reached in the folowing ways:
Telephone:  515-271-4097
FAX:  515-271-4518
Email:  Stuart.Klugman@Drake.edu
Office:  318 Aliber Hall
Mail:  College of Business and Public Administration
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311

Here is an extremely brief biography:

Born:  January 10, 1949 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Education:  B.S. in Business Administration with an Actuarial Science major - Drake University, 1970; Ph.D. in Statistics - University of Minnesota, 1975

Professional Designation:  Fellow, Society of Actuaries, 1978

Employment:  1974-1988 - Assistant, then Associate Professor of Actuarial Science - The University of Iowa; 1987-present - Principal Financial Group Professor of Actuarial Science at Drake University

Honors:  Drake University College of Business and Public Administration Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 1996-97;  Drake University International Students' Teacher of the Year, 1998-99;  Elected member of the Society of Actuaries Board of Governors, 1997-2000.  Elected Vice-President of the Society of Actuaries 2001-2003.

Books authored:
Hogg, R. and S. Klugman, Loss Distributions, John Wiley and Sons, 1984
Klugman, S., Bayesian Statistics in Actuarial Science with an Emphasis on Credibility, Kluwer, 1992
Klugman, S., H. Panjer and G. Willmot, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
Klugman, S., H. Panjer and G. Willmot, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.

You've made it this far, so you get to look at my family just before we rode down the volcano on Maui in 1998.  (Note to prospective actuaries -- this was at the 1998 Society of Actuaries Spring Meetings.)  We're not smiling because it was early in the morning and cold.

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